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Margaret Bourke-White

LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White clad in fleece flight suit while holding aerial camera, standing in front of Flying Fortress bomber in which she made combat mission photographs of the US attack on Tunis. Feb 1943. (Margaret Bourke-White/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Fort Peck Dam, in the Missouri River: image used on first LIFE Magazine cover, November 23, 1936. (Margaret Bourke-White/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Margaret Bourke-White with a print of her photograph from the first cover of Life magazine. (Getty Images/Walter Daran)

Margaret Bourke-White posing with equipment she used for a mural at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, circa 1935. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine in Cologne in ruins at the end of World War II. (Margaret Bourke-White/Keystone/Getty Images)

A woman removes a portrait of Hitler from the wall of a protestant church in Frankfurt, which had been used by the Nazis as a party headquarters. On the right is a poster warning against careless talk amongst civilians. (Margaret Bourke-White/Keystone/Getty Images)